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Fran Reiser, President www.uvu.edu/elderquest Winter 2017-18 President’s Message Dear UVU Elder Quest Friends, Thanks to all of you for contributing to the success of our Fall Semester as “We Travel Forward on Silver Wings of Learning” celebrating our 25th anniversary. As we re- view the semester, we recall with satisfaction the different activities. We had ten weeks of outstanding “Life-long Learning.” In the twelve exceptional Classes, we increased our knowledge and enjoyed associating with each other. Many, many thanks to the fabulous teachers of those classes. The three Potpourri Lectures with Duane Hyatt from the Three D’s, Judge Thom- as Kay from the Bountiful Court, and Dave Christiansen from the Utah State Department of Consumer Protection have given us three very diverse and informative sessions that were fun, stimulating and educational. Our Day Trips to the Utah Symphony Finishing Touches were much enjoyed. In October we had the privi- lege of hearing Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Brahms Hungarian Dances, and Schoenberg’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. We were equally thrilled in November with Rossini’s Overture to The Barber of Seville, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and Elgar’s Symphony No. 1. We took a longer trip when we travelled to the Wendover Air Base Museum. You’ll read more about that later in the newsletter. At the Current Event Luncheon in September we were introduced to the teachers and excited by what they had to say about the classes they would be teaching. October gave us the opportunity of hearing from the non- traditional students who were recipients of the scholarships this year. Ott and Cynthia Dameron were our Novem- ber speakers. They told us of their experiences in Greece where they met when he was stationed as a Navy pilot and she was a student. Ott will be teaching The World and I class during the next semester. We look forward to our Winter Semester where several new classes will be introduced as well as the con- tinuation of the special classes we’ve enjoyed for many years. It will be another exciting learning experience for all of us. You can see the full class schedule later in the newsletter. Our last event of the 2017 – 2018 Silver Anniversary year will be the Spring Seminar and Scholarship Fund- raiser on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. As always we are inviting special speakers, musicians, and other entertain- ment to set the stage for this climactic event as we end our 25th season in Elder Quest. Again, let me thank all of you for your contributions to the success of Elder Quest. It is an outstanding or- ganization because of you wonderful members. Sincerely, Fran Reiser, President Please join us at the UVU Culinary Arts Building for monthly luncheons at noon on Jan 17 and Feb 14, and Teach Appreciation Banquet at 6 pm on March 14. * Be sure to call Dorothy Purcell at 801 225-1503 At least a week in advance to reserve your meal ticket! Save the date for our 25 Year Anniversary Celebration and Spring Seminar on April 11, 2018. More information coming! Welcome Alan Keele "The Life and Times of Leslie Norris: Revelations of the Eternal World" Thursday at 2:30 pm Alan Keele was born in Provo and attended school in Springville, Utah, Laramie, Wyoming, Spanish Fork, Utah, and Bicknell, Utah, where he graduated from Wayne High School in 1960.Keele is married to Linda Kay Sellers and they have six children. Keele has participated in various community and civic activities, including on the board of Utahans United Against the Nuclear Arms Race, on the Area Advisory Council for the Alpine School District, and as chair of the Utah Dem- ocratic Forum. With professor Donald K. Jarvis, Keele co-chaired Russian Relief, an organization to collect food and money to help Soviet citizens in need in the early 1990s, for which he received attention from The New York Times. Keele initially attended the University of Utah with the intent to major in chemistry. After his missionary service, Keele attended BYU, where he received his B.A. in German and History in 1967. He received his Ph.D. in German Language and Literature from Princeton University in 1971. At BYU, Keele has chaired the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and was associate dean of Honors and General Education. He has served on numerous departmental, college, university and professional commit- tees and councils. At BYU, Keele has taught German language and literature, and some honors and humanities courses and re- ceived several honors for his academic work. Keele has also written on topics of interest to the LDS community, such as pre-existence and the Mormon resistance movement in Nazi Germany. His book on Helmuth Hübener was made into a PBS documentary by KBYU. For his body of work, Keele received a Special Award in Criticism from the Association for Mormon Letters in 2008 Neal Lambert "Life and Works of Mark Twain" Tues at 1:00 pm FREEDOM a desire to free ones self from unnatural restraints; a celebration of human freedom BONDAGE a critique of Chattel Slavery, certainly. But there is more than one kind of slavery—a stupid conformity to popularly accepted values and notions of behavior Welcome Neal Lambert! GOOD is Accessible–there are great positive values; nature and the natural world; significant human relationships based Neal Lambert is an emeritus professor on Sympathy and Integrity. of English and American Studies EVIL There is evil in the world, but “Injun Joe” is not the central, at Brigham Young University (BYU). His i.e. slavery. most notable work was A Believing PROVIDENCE and the WORLD BEYOND There is evidence all around of something beyond this world, but . .How to People: Literature of Latter-day understand it? Presbyterian theology? How to relate to it? Saints an anthology co-edited Folklore? with Richard Cracroft. METHOD OF DEALING WITH THESE MATTERS Neal Lambert was born in Fillmore, Utah. Lambert married the former Lu- HUMOR cille Anne "Anne" Johnson. Incongruous Juxtaposition Exaggeration Lambert earned a bachelor's degree Inversion and a Ph.D., the later in American Stud- VOCABULARY ies, both from the University of Utah. Common Speech (i.e. common to the categories of American culture, e.g. He joined the BYU faculty in 1966. Lam- ministers, slaves, politi- bert served as the chair of BYU's Amer- cians, boatmen, etc. ican Studies Program, chair of the BYU Metaphor (figure of speech–implied sense of likeness) English Department (1991-1994) and Associate Academic Vice President for graduate studies and research from 1982-1985. And Mark Twain’s OWN POWERS OF DESCRIPTION AND SENSE OF DETAIL From 1987 until 1990 Lambert was Day Trip to Wendover Army-Air Force Base Museum - Richard Reiser, Day Trip Coordinator Having been subtlety piqued by Don Norton's fall semes- past. They are working hard with limited support of funds ter class on WWII, eager Elder Questers boarded the to keep a reminder of this significant part of our history. comfortable Le Bus at 9:00 a.m. on November 3rd and From a booming, bustling military base during the war, it headed west for our visit to Wendover and the historic, is now abandoned and in serious decline. With heroic ef- (though largely forgotten) site of the 1944 - 45 training fort and very little support, this dedicated group cares and airfield for the 509th Bomb group, lead by Colonel Paul continues to preserve the most important sites on the base. Tibbets. The Officers’ Club has been somewhat restored, and a few As we travelled, we were reminded of the wartime role buildings remain although most have been torn down, played by Utah at sites such as Geneva Steel and the Re- salvaged, sold or removed. The large airfield is used occa- mington Small Arms plant in Salt Lake City - built inland sionally by planes bringing in tourists to the casino's from the Pacific Coast to minimize risk of attack from the across the highway in Nevada. enemy. Sites to see: The Officers Club, the control tower, a few The somewhat lengthy drive across the Salt Flats was hangers, and especially the large hanger which housed the made interesting by three different items. First was Enola Gay when it was in training, a few re- viewing an Avant-guard art piece built by a Swedish stored "ready rooms", the secured, guarded, artist, Karl Momen, he called “Metaphor: The Tree and locked buildings where the Nordon Bomb of Utah” also called Tree of Life. Secondly, the sites were kept under strict protection, a re- long traverse of the white, flat, barren Salt Flats was mote site where a practice pit was constructed made instructive as we recalled the doomed experi- to train the ground crews in how to load the ence of the Donner-Reed party and the role it may oversize atomic bombs into the bomb bays of have played for the successful trek of the Salt Lake the modified B-29. Sobering stuff! pioneers in July a year later. The third item was an At the edge of the base, a monument was instructive video, shown on the way home, of Ab Jenkins erected and dedicated about 10 years ago, commemorating racing his Duesenberg endurance race car in the pre-war the role of Wendover AAFB in preparing for the delivery 1930s. (A curious distraction during the depression of the of the Atomic Bomb on August 6th, 1945. Colonel Tib- '30s) bets was in attendance for that event. We arrived at the Wendover Army - Air Force Base The Day Trip Coordinator felt this was a worthy trip for around 11:00 and began our tour, led EQ members to follow the mandate of by Jim Peterson and his supportive Life Long Learning.
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